The Past Will Set You Free: Prophetic Memory in Twentieth-Century Herero Religious Thought.
This article examines how a southern African society commemorated colonial genocide by auguring alternative futures. Drawing on the concept of "prophetic memory," it illustrates how the Herero combined vernacular ideas about freedom and land, Christian eschatology, as well as pan-Africanist ideology...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 387 - 412 |
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Trustees of Boston University, acting through its African Studies Center
2023
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